Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world read more

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is read more

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.